Grace before and after Meat

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
413Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

O LORD, when hunger pinches sore, Do thou stand us in stead, And send us, from thy bounteous store, A tup or wether head! Amen.———— O Lord, since we have feasted thus, Which we so little merit, Let Meg now take away the flesh, And Jock bring in the spirit! Amen.

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